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    Laocoön (/leɪˈɒkoʊˌɒn, -kəˌwɒn/; Ancient Greek: Λαοκόων, romanized: Laokóōn, IPA: [laokóɔːn], gen.: Λαοκόοντος) is a figure in Greek and Roman mythology...
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    The statue of Laocoön and His Sons, also called the Laocoön Group (Italian: Gruppo del Laocoonte), has been one of the most famous ancient sculptures...
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  • Laocoon, or Laocoön, may refer to: Laocoön, the Trojan priest of Poseidon Laocoon (mythology), mythological characters named Laocoon. Laocoön and His...
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  • 3240 Laocoon /leɪˈɒkoʊ.ɒn/ is a carbonaceous Jupiter trojan from the Trojan camp, approximately 51 kilometers (32 miles) in diameter. It was discovered...
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    The Laocoön is an oil painting created between 1610 and 1614 by Greek painter El Greco. It is part of a collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington...
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  • Greek mythology, Laocoön (/leɪˈɒkoʊˌɒn, -kəˌwɒn/; Ancient Greek: Λαοκόων, IPA: [laokóɔːn]) may refer to the following personages: Laocoön or Lacoon, one...
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    their origin to a single marble sculpture, purchased in the 16th century: Laocoön and His Sons was discovered on 14 January 1506, in a vineyard near the...
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    Citheronia laocoon is a species of moth in the family Saturniidae. It is found from the Guianas south to northern Argentina. The moths are relatively...
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    favor of Athena for themselves. While questioning Sinon, the Trojan priest Laocoön guesses the plot and warns the Trojans, in Virgil's famous line Timeo Danaos...
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    Laocoön and His Sons is a 0.83 m high marble sculpture by Joseph Chinard, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. It is a reduced-scale copy of the ancient...
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    had effects in Europe. It was during this time that he wrote his famous Laocoön, or the Limitations of Poetry [de]. In 1765, Lessing returned to Berlin...
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  • him by using a giant horse to sneak inside and destroy the city of Troy. Laocoon (Heathcote Williams) tries to warn the Trojans of a vision of this, but...
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    Genera: Bifurgaster Stone & Moyse, 1985 Dendrogaster Knipovich, 1890 Laocoon Nierstrasz & Entz, 1922 Ulophysema Brattström, 1936 "Dendrogastridae"....
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    likely related to each other. The very important works of the groups of Laocoön and His Sons, in the Vatican Museums, and the sculptures discovered at...
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  • Latin epic poem written by Virgil. The phrase is spoken by Trojan priest Laocoön referring to the Trojan Horse used by the Greeks during the Trojan War...
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    Augustus of Prima Porta Colossus of Constantine La Bocca della Verità Laocoön and His Sons Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus Ecstasy of Saint Teresa Pietà...
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    Serpents then came out of the sea and devoured either Laocoön and one of his two sons, Laocoön and both his sons, or only his sons, a portent which so...
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    the best-known works of Greek sculpture belong to this period, including Laocoön and His Sons, Venus de Milo, and the Winged Victory of Samothrace. It follows...
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    Augustus of Prima Porta Colossus of Constantine La Bocca della Verità Laocoön and His Sons Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus Ecstasy of Saint Teresa Pietà...
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    muscular even though he is starving. Its style reflects the Vatican's Laocoön and His Sons. Carpeaux won the Prix de Rome in 1854. While in Rome, he...
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  • genus of plants Lacantunia, a genus of catfish Lacantún River, in Mexico Laocoon (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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  • the famous Aeneas while the later one, became the father of the priest Laocoon. Apollodorus, 3.12.2 Scholia on Euripides, Hecuba 3 Hyginus, Fabulae 135...
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    story, except Laocoön who, along with his two sons, is promptly attacked by a giant sea serpent. Following this, believing that Laocoön was attacked because...
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    higher-ranking to people than hearing was. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing opens his Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry (1766) by observing that...
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  • 204, on the appearance of the sea-serpents who kill the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons horribile dictu horrible to say cf. mirabile dictu hortus...
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    Roman statuary, particularly by the famous first century CE statue of Laocoön and His Sons, which was unearthed in 1506 and put on display in the gallery...
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    second vowel is pronounced separately. It is also employed in names such as Laocoön, Coös County, and the constellation Boötes. This is also done in Dutch...
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    Victory of Samothrace (c. 2nd century BCE) Terracotta Army (246–210 BCE) Laocoön and His Sons (c. 200 BCE – 70 CE) Venus de Milo (130–100 BCE) Equestrian...
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    or rag. The Nike of Samothrace is made of Parian marble (c. 220–190 BC) Laocoön and His Sons in the Vatican Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul The Praetorians...
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  • 29, 1978 Nanking Purple Mountain Obs.  · 3.4 km MPC · JPL 3240 Laocoon 1978 VG6 Laocoon November 7, 1978 Palomar E. F. Helin, S. J. Bus L5 52 km MPC ·...
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